81. Assassin's Mace: How an Ancient Saying Explains China's Current Military Strategy
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The Assassin's Mace Concept in Chinese Military Thought
The arms race isn't between an opponent and an opponent. It's there's no point in this arms race because you can't use the arms. If you do, you will also die because your opponent has even one,. Even one would be bad. And at that point, like it's the species is fucked. The weird thing about this arms race to me is that it's not like other arms races where a great tactic for defensive war has always been scaring the shit out of your opponent. That's a genuine game theory concept. Nuclear war is a little different. I think biological warfare we saw with COVID has a similar situation, but not quite as like geologic, I
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